INSIDE NMAI CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT:
National Native American Veterans Memorial de- signer and Vietnam veteran Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne/ Arapaho), second to left, with his wife Gina and NMAI curatorial consultant Herman Viola and his wife, Susan.
L-R: Veterans Clarence J. Tougaw (Puyallup), Rodney A. Sisson (Puyallup) and Michael Sisson (Puyallup).
Library of Congress staff Owen Rogers interviews Korean veteran Saginaw Grant (Sac and Fox, Iowa and Otoe-Missouria Nations).
Native veteran Angel Salas (Lakota). Eagle staffs and colors posted after Grand Entry.
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of Natives annual conference in Anchorage, Alaska. In addition to collaborating with the Library of Congress, NMAI is actively work- ing with the Veterans Administration (VA) Office of Tribal Government Relations to join forces with local American Legion and Veter- ans of Foreign Wars posts. The gathering in Arizona, sponsored by the VA’s tribal relations office, drew a large audience of more than 200 White Mountain Apache, Diné, Hopi, Pueblo and Tohono O’odham veterans and their fam- ily members. This year, the team traveled to the Oklahoma State University Oral History Center to participate in a workshop training sponsored by the Veterans History Project to enhance their interviewing skills and con- ducted more interviews this summer with community members of the Federated Tribes of Grande Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon. Although many will view the dedication
of the National Native American Veterans Memorial in 2020 as a culmination point, the effort to collect and preserve the history of Native veterans’ service has no end date. The stories of Native veterans will live forever in the archives of the Library of Congress and represent the living voice of the memorial. To learn more, visit the NMAI’s website dedi- cated to the memorial project at American-
Indian.si.edu/nnavm. For more information on the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, visit
www.loc.gov/vets.X
In memory of Christopher E. Janis (Oglala Lakota, Feb. 1, 1975 – May 27, 2017). United States Marine Corps, 1993–1997, Inactive Reserves, 1997–2001.
Martin Earring (Mnicoujou/Oglala Lakota) is a special as- sistant in the director’s office of the National Museum of the American Indian. The Museum’s Veterans History Project team members Betsy Gordon, Kelly McHugh and Zandra Wilson (Diné) also contributed to this article.
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